The Barbell Gets Me

 

Normal people confide in their friends. Most folks have a close few people who "get" them. Sometimes I feel that I have people like that in my life. But as is the natural ebb and flow of life these people duck in and out of existence. They move away. They make a mistake and get cut from your life like a cancerous tumor. The people are many as are the reasons for transition. The one constant. The one thing in life that is always there, always consistent, is the weight of an empty barbell in your hands ready to be loaded up. Ready to work with you until it feels what you are going through. Ready to break you until you understand what is dragging you down or lifting you up. Like a quiet unjudging friend. Like a therapist who listens to you until you figure out the answers for yourself. There is no coddling, no disagreeing, no yes men. Just truth and struggle. While you are there with your friend, your confidant, your nemesis, the rest of the world is dim like a thunderstorm at dusk. Here you are safe from the trouble of work, relationships, and finances. Here you are paid in muscle. Your soul is fed by PRs. Your work, no matter how earth shattering  or disappointing, baths your body in the drunken cocktail of endorphins and adrenaline. There is no one who gets you like the barbell. 

Get to it. Your therapy is waiting.


Talk Soon

Dan Mason

 Dan is a nationally ranked amateur

strongman competitor in the 242lb

and 275lb classes. He holds instructor

level ranks in Taekwondo, Muay Thai,

and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He as been

training people for strength and martial

arts since 2004.

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